My Children Quotes

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

I strongly support the feeding of children.

I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.

You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

Children do better when they feel better.

Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child?

Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

All men are children, and of one family.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.